Divine Legendary Knowledge of Raiding Paladins, Help!!!

[Magnis]

<DIV>Im planning to on getting 2 groups to take on shattered Vail.</DIV> <DIV>1 Im hoping you guys can give me an ideal raid setup for pallys</DIV> <DIV> - I have 2 friends helping, a ranger and templar. (All 3 ar fully MC and AD3)</DIV> <DIV>2 What can I expect while fighting in thus zone?</DIV> <DIV>3 Any good drops?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Keep inmind NEVER RAIDED BEFORE!!! so pleace guide me through that.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks.</DIV> <P>Message Edited by Sanser on <SPAN class=date_text>01-17-2007</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>11:13 AM</SPAN></P><p>Message Edited by Sanser on <span class=date_text>01-17-2007</span> <span class=time_text>12:07 PM</span>

[Rocksthemic]

The shattered veil as in the guild writ?  Well basically anything 2 group I find it a good idea to set up a strong tank group if you can. I generally prefer defiler and templar, but mystic or inquis will do in a pinch in those groups. You have a templar already, so that is good. Also a dirge if at all possible will help you. Pallies really benefit a LOT from the bonus to parry that dirges give. Once you have your 2 main healers set in your group, and have a dirge to help you, then you can either put a support tank (such as SK, or monk) for avoidance, amends target, etc. and a swashbuckler or assassin to put hate on you. This gives you hate increase from dirge, amends on another tank (who can also step in and tank in your place fairly quickly should you fall) and a scout dumping hate on you. With these 3 things you will have a much higher success rate for keeping aggro on you. Another option if you are very well geared and confident in your abilities is to have a coercer AND a dirge in your group. They can both dump hate on you, their mana regen stacks, and you gain a dps buff that will help you do more dmg and thus keep aggro that much better.  Our guardian uses this set up. He has himself as tank, coercer, dirge, swashy, templar, defiler. With this set up he keeps aggro very nicely. Ok, after you have your MT group set up properly, it is time to move on to your second group. You should ideally have 2 other healers in your second group in a 2 group raid, but if you have one good one that can work as well. If you have 2 healers in your second group, then it is possible to construct a similar group to your MT group, or at least the vital elements (those elements being 2 healers, prefferably cleric and shaman to support a tank) Another option is to have your second group built for damage in a 2 group raid. If you have 2 tanks in your MT group and know what they're doing, and only 1 healer for your second group, it is often better to find a troubador and some heavy hitters. Troubadors have one of the best things in the game for raid type DPS. I forget the name of the song, but basically it reduces the aggro of all NON-fighters in the group by 40% at master 1. M1 amends is only 41%, so I don't need to tell you how powerful that is. If you get a troubador, then your second group not only has power regen, it has 40% reduction on aggro for all the DPS you can bring. So load that second group up with wizards, high dmg scouts, necros, whatever. As long as they aren't a fighter, they will be producing 40% less aggro, and with the hate dumps and amends targets in your MT group, you will be able to do high amounts of damage with low risk of aggro bouncing. Well that's all I can think of off the top of my head lol. Hope this helps <div></div>